Feeder for addressing-machines.



S. 0. 00X. FEEDER PoR ADDRBSSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 29, 1905.

.Patented Sept, 23, 1.913.

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SANDFORD C. COX, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR; BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,TO

COX MULTI-MAILER COMPANY, GF AUGUSTA, MAINE, `A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

FEEDER FOR ADDRESSING-MACHINES.

y Specification of Letters atent.

invariati Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

Application filed May 29, 1905. Serial No. 262,722.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Saxuionn C. Cox, a

' citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Feeders for Addressing-Machines, of which the followingis a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention is designed as an improvement upon the addressing machineand feeding lmechanism embodied therein, shown in Patent No. 1,033,232,issuedtto me July 23, 1912, which describes a machine especiallyadaptedv for addressiner newspapers and otherlike articles, in which thepapers to be addressed are placed in a horizontal or substantiallyhorizontal trough or hopper and are vfed'one at a time to suitablemechanism 'for nnprintingvthe address thereon.

My present invention has reference to the `means for feeding the 'papersalong said hopper and removing them one 'at a time therefrom preparatoryto beingV addressed, ,and to means for stopping the machine in the eventthe feeding mechanism should fail to act in a proper manner; and theinvention has for its object to provide improved and efficient means foraccomplishing these ends. c

The invent-ion consists in the vfeatures of novelty which will now bedescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims. v In the said drawingse-Figure 1isa side Velevation of a portion of an addressing machine provided withmy feeding mechanism. Fig.'2 is a detail vertical, longitudinalscctionon' the line 2, 2, Fig. 4.v Fig. 3 is a plan View. Fig. 4 is avertical cross sectlon on theline 4, 4 Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is an enlargeddetail View of certain parts in side elevation hereinafter described.Fig. 6 is a vertical,

y longitudinal section on. the line 6, 6, F ig. 4. Fig. 7 is an enlargeddetail perspective View of the gate hereinafterv described.

'f"' i* lil'. S is a detail side elevation of the means foractuating'the sucker har. Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the. mechanism:tor actuating the gate, showing connected parts. Fig. 1U `is anenlarged vertical cross sectlon on the line I10, 10, Fig. 11, and Fig.11 is a detail vertical section on the line 11, 'l1 Fig. 2.

Fig. 12 is a side elevation similar to `1, of the opposite side of themachine. -F1g. 13

forward ends and over idlers l is an enlarged detail view ot' the tripdog and cam.

The papers or other articles to be addressed are indicated at 1 andthese are placed on edge with their folded edges downward in-a hopper orfeed trough 2 provided in the bottom 3 thereof with a number oftraveling chains or belts 4 running over sprockets on a shaft 6 atYtheir at one end is supported upon'the edge of the hopper 2 by an arm10, which is provided at its end with a prong 11 titting over the edgeof the hopper' and thereby holding the board yfrom rotating on itsupright axis, while the other end of the board is provided with an arm12 extending over and resting on the opposite side or edge of thehopper. As shown in Fig. f3 the boardis considerably narrower than thewidth of thchopper and is arranged at one side of the hopper, leavingquite a space at the other side of the hopper so that the doubled endsof the papers which are arranged at this side will not. be undulysqueezed or compressed, it

being understood that the supply is thicker or Alonger on that side thanon the other side and consequently requires more room, and for the samereason the arm 12 is bent baekwardly so that it affords the requisitesupport to the follower board and prevents the pileV or supply frombeing unduly loose while avoiding undue compression.

'lhe forward end of the supply of papers is supported and the papersheld in an upright position by one or more stop arms 123, curvingupwardly and lmckwardly over thc upper edges of the papers and securedto the lower end ot' a stem l-f-l-,which is mounted in two collars 15,16 adjustably secured to the stem, 14 by set screws 1T, 18; The eollar15 is formed or secured on a collar 1), which is journaled on a crcssrod 20 mounted in projections 21 on the side frames, and

the collar 16 is supported on theupl'aer'e'nd; of arod 22 which ispivoted :it Q3 to the col' i in the manner described it serves to engagethe vupper edges, o-f the papers as they approach it and to not ,onlylimit their forward ,movement butto press thein down` wardly against thebottom of the hopper in' case that they should by any possibility rideupwardly before reaching the stop lil. The

purpose of the various adjustable collars, the stem '14e and rod Q2 isto provide for .the vertical and lateral adjustment'of the 4stop 13,itbeing evident'that the perpendicular Vadjustment may be elfected bysimply slidsol ing the stem la upwardly in the collars 1:5, 16 while thelatter adjustment may be produced by sliding the rod 22 in its clampingcollar'Ql.

The forward end of the supply of papers attheir lower edges is held bachor retarded by a shoulder 28 produced across the bottom 3 of the hopperin any suitable way, as better shown in Fig. l0, and arranged a slightdistance beyond this shoulder is av gate voi shutter 29 similar to 'thatdescribed` in my aforesaid application, but which in my presentinvention is comparatively short instead of' extending substantiallyacross the bottom of the hopper, and serves to engage the lower edge ofthe foremost paper and hold the same in place, the greater: part of thestrain produced by the forward movementof the entire supply of papersheilig borne by the shoulder 2S, which relieves the shutter or gate 29of severe pressure and also revents the ends of the papers at the sidesof the shutter orgate from being pushed forwardly beyond the gate aswould be the case, if the pressure of the main supply were not retardedby some such device as the shoulder lbefore the pressure reached thepapers immediately in the rear of shutter 29. rThis shutter or gate 29is mounted upon a rocker shaft 30 which is provided with a crank arm 31connected to an operating rod 32, see Fig. 9. One end of this rod isformed with a yoke 33 surrounding a shaft 3a on which is secured a cam35 adapted to act upon pin SG on said yoke at each revolution of theshaft and cause the shutter or gate 29 to open or move outwardly, allowing the paper to pass` the opixiosite moveinent of the shutter beingproduced by any suitable spring il? oi'othcr means. as described in myaforo-raid patent. Just as the shutter or gate QS) thus opens, the loweredge "of the Vigiaper ,is pickedup `or lifted fc'lear of "the shutterlor gate by a number of'suckers r 38 mounted upon the under side; of a4sucker bar or tube 39 connected by pipe 404wi-th any 4suitable pump or.other suction .device for exhausting the air, and as the'sucker thuslifts the paper, the gate 29 is again returned as shown in Fig. 6 tocatch the next paper and hold it in place.` The suckers then releasethe` foremost paper, -which'is shaft is provided -with avcranky 46connected pitinan 47 with a crankl i8 on shaft 49. As the paper is thusforced downwardly by the needle blocks itis caught vbetween feed rollers50, 5l and tapes 52, 53 and conducted i away to the addressing mechanismorother place not necessary to be described,` the character of thetreatment which it receives after leaving the mechanism whichconstitutes the subject of the present invention, being entirelyvimmaterial so far j as the claims of this application are concerned.lnasmiich,'liowever, as the papers are ordi.

. narily addressed in addressing machines forv which this feedingmechanism isespecially adapted, from slugs or linotypes andthe machineis necessarily so timed that ,one of such slugs or other devices,carrying the ad.

dress to be printed, comes'into positionto be printed at each operationof the machine. that is to say each time the suckers lift one of thepapers, or makes' its stroke.-

whether it lifts the paper or not, it naturally follows that suchslugwould pass by.

or pass out of printing position without leaving its imprint on some'one of the papers should anything happen to prevent thepaper fromreaching the printing position in due order of time witlrreljation tothev operation 'of the balance of the mechanism. 'n order therefore thatthe machine may be 'stopped automatically should any thing occur toprevent one 'of the papers from being introduced between the feed rolls"50, 51 each timel the sucker bar 39 makes a complet-e stroke, the`automatic stop or throw out mechanism, which will now be described, isemployed. This consists primarily of a linger 54 which isv adapted torest upon the paper while the same is passing under it between the tapesy52, 53 and is thereby supported, and operatively related to this fingeris a trip dog', which i-s secured to a lever 56 that serves to throwvthe machine in and out of operation, one

end of the lever being attached in any suitable way to one member 57 ofaiiysuitable .clutch whereby the machine is (li-nien, 5.8

representing a part of the driving belt. Ar-

ranged iinder the finger 5l is a plate :59`

yforced downwardly -by lneedle blocks ll mounted `upon armsv 4t2 whichslide in col- S. C. 00X. FEEDER Eon vMJDMJSSING MACHINES. lllILUMLION4FILED MAY 29,1005

1,073,741 'Patented Sept. 23, 1913.

present inventiont the lower end of the gage 93 is arranged Tas closetorthe upper en d of tion as that may be understood for at this-pointth'ecompression lof therpapers remains` uniform and as .a 'consequence the,

gage'ldo'esnotact to throw-the h'oql;v ba'lr'196 out vof operation untiltheforemost'up'aper reaches a4 predetermined point or' comesy firmly.against the back of thev shutter br gate 29.. y e

The means for addressing the papers after' they leave `tine-triggeroi'finger i'ofthe stop-mechanism, or even while passing said ngerjortrigger, 'may be of any suitable .form,-.s,uch for example as that shownand described rmy aforesaid applicatiomand operatively' connected in anysuitable way with thevtrigger or finger4 54 as would be.

the case if it were connected with and operated by the clutch 57, andsuchl a connecthe purpose of this application.

Having thus described my invention what I' claim as new therein anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. In a device forthe purpose described,

Y' the combination of means for holding a supply of papers, means forextracting the papers from said supply, means for` driving or actuatingsaid extracting means, a gravity stop for throwing the extracting meansout of action, the 'end o'f said stop being arranged to be supported andheld inactive by Y i the extracted paper and while the paper is moving,and mechanical means operable as the paper passes away from thestop forsupport-ing said stop toprevent the latter from nisni including agravity actuated member for throwing the first said mechanism out ofaction, said stop being'supported and 'held l y inactive by the paperand while the paper is moving,.a cam, and means operatively related tothe said gravity member and 1n- ',luencfed by the camfo'rsupporting thegravity member as the paper Vpasses away'from thestop for alsoApreventing said mechanisml A Y .a1-supply of papers, mea-ns in thebottom of from being thrown out of action.

A3. In. a -device for, the purpose themzm'thesad mechanism., meansopera-L u i l bei' set in les'cribedl the combination of means.forholding-asupfply of papers, mechanism for receivingand 'acting uponthepapers', means for extracting restraining-'t after "leavin'g'thesupply for rendering the firstsaidfmechanism inactive should a paperfail to'pass thestop mechanism in time with the operation -of 4,theiirst said mechanism, s aid'stop being supported by the paper while thepaper'is-moving and means other than the papers and operable as thepapersA pass away-from the stop for supporting the, said gravitycontrolled'member for preventing the stop mechanism from throwin-g thefirst comprising' an arm operatively related to the stop mechanism, anda cafn coperating with the arm. i i i,

4. In a device for the purpose described the combination of means forholding'a supply ofvpapers,'mechanism for receiving and acting upon thepapers after they are eX- tracted from the supply, a stop mechanism`comprising a gravity controlled trigger arranged in the line of movementof the papers from the supply, means voperatively connected with thesaid stop mechanism whereby the first said mechanism is renderedinactive should a paper fail lto pass the trigger in time with theoperation of the firstsaid mechanism, and means other than the papers`said mechanism out of action, said means and operable as the paperpasses away from the stop. for retaining the mechanism in `operationwhen the papers are being uniformly fed, said trigger being supported bythe paper while the paper is moving, said means comprising an varm forsupporting the ltrigger to hold. the latter inactive operatively relatedto the trigger and acain coperating with the arm.

l' 5. In a machine for the purpose described the combination of a hopperfor holding a supply of papers on edge, means in said hopper for feedingthe papers forward, a shoulder in the bottom ofthe hopper near theforward end thereof on which the edges of the papers impinge for holdingback the nected with the gate for lifting the lo'wer edgeofthe'foremostpaper clear of the gate when the vgat-e opens, and.. meansfor *con-1 ducting away .the paper thus extracted.'

6. In a machine for the purpose described the' combination' with ahopper for holding thehopperffor lfeeding the papers forward,

a; shoulder nearthe forward-end ofthe hop' pleinentalfeeding bandarranged in the 'bot-4 toiniof theA hopper beyondsaid shoulderforyf'eeldilni,gfthe)..pa-per's forward, 'and means for extraetin-g thepa ers one atatimefromgthe oryvadend o .t e supply.

eir,` ,advance movement.` a sup- '7In'a'device-"forthe purpose described130 the combination of a hopper for holding `a supply of papers, feedbelts in the bottom the width ot the hopper and arranged to'` one sideot the center of the hopper, an arm projecting rearwardly "from the:follower board Iand engaging one ot the side walls of the` hopper anda. rearwardly deflected arm at the other end ot' the follower, suppoited loosely upon the hopper.

S. In a device for the purpose described the combination of a hopper forholding a supply ot' papers on edge, means for advancing the papers inthe hopper, means at the bottom of the hopper for holding the papers in.check at their lower edges, and a stop having an extended body ,arrangedover the hopper and adapted to be engaged by the upper edges of thepapers and a downn wardly and rearwardly extending extremity adapted :tohe engagedby'the front side ol the foremost paper. y

9. In a machine for the purpose described the' combination ot a hopperfor holding a supply ot papers on edge, means at the bottomof `thehopper in one end `for rcstraining :the papers at their lower edges', astop haring an extended body arranged above the" hopper for engaging theupper edges of the papers and a downwardly and rearwardly curvedextremity adapted to cn- `gage the Jrront 'tace of the foremost paper,and means whereby said stop may be ad justed vertically and laterally.

10. ln a machine 'for the purpose described the combination ot a hopperfor holding a supply o'tI papers on edge, means for advancing the papers`in the hopper, means tor operating said advancing means coi'nprising athro\\'-out for rendering the advancing vmeans inactive, a gage openatively connected with said throw-out and arranged to bi' iinpinged bythe papers ucar their lower lgcs and shifted thereby, and means vtorengaging the foremost paper at its lower edge and contiguous to saidgage. for restraining the for 'ard movci'uent ot' the papers.

1li` in a device tor the purpose described, the combination ot meanst'or holding a supply ot papers, means for conducting the impersl a wayfrom saidv supply, means tor extracting` the papers one at a timepreparatory to being removed by said conducting means, an aperturedsupport over which the papers pass alter leaving said extracting means`a stop mechanism embodying a gravity actuated trigger arranged over thcaperture ot said support and adapted to rest upon the moving paper fornormallyY holding the stop mechanism inactive without interrupting,r themovement ot' theipaper, means operatively connecting said stop mechanismwith said extracting moans` whcrell' thc latter will be renderedinactive should a papel' tail to pass' said trigger in time with theopt-intimi fol thc extracting means, and rotary caan mechanismsupporting the trigger during the intervals between successive paperswhen Ithc papers a're normalty 'lcd and also operable,to permit thoextracting means to remain active during said intervals.

t2. ln a device of the class described, the combination ot means tot'holding a supply of papers, meams for extracting the papers:

from said supply, means Ator driving or actuating the extracting means,a rock shaft, a gravity stop operatively related lto the shaft forthrowing the extracting means out of action, said stop being adapted tobe` acted upon and. held inactive bythepaper extracted and while thepaper is moving, an ai'zn operatively related to the slia'tt, and a caniadapted to engage thearm only as the, paper passes away 'from the |stopto sup-` port and prevent the stop from throwing the extracting meansout ol' operation.

i3. ln a' device for the purpose descril'ied, the combination ot meanstor lnilding a lsu'pply of papers, means for extracting the papers fromthc said supply, mechanism tor receiving and'acting upon the papers'after they. are extracted from the supply, a stop mechanisnrincluding agravity controlled trigger arraiigctfl in the lino ot movement' ot thepapers trom the supply, means operatively connected with saidsttrpfnieclianism whereby the second recited means is held active by thcpaper extracted and while the paper is mpvcd, and is renderti-d iuactireshould the paper fail to pass the trigger. in time with thc oiicra'itionolf the first said"mechanis1n, a member opm'atively connccted with thestop for also retaining the extracting means in operation when thepapers are being uuitormly 'fed and a cam co operating with the saidmember and adapted to operate the latter as the papers pass away fromthe stop tor controlling the stop.

1,4. ln a device of the class described the com bination of 1u fans forholding a supply of papers, means for extracting the papers :from saidsuppljdmeans Vtor actuating the extracting means includingcoi'ierativeclements, a shitting arm operatively related t.) one otE theoperating elements tor moving the same' into an ,inoperativeposition. astop mechanism held inactive by the cxtractcd paper, means operativelyrelated to the stop mechanism lor holding the shitting arm in aninoperative position, said means heilig adapted to release the arm whenthe stop mechanism actuated. and means operatively related to one ot theother operating elements 'l`or shitting the arm when rei leased.

l5. ln a device ot' the class described the pri the collar 16 issupported on theupl'aer'e'nd; of arod 22 which is pivoted :it Q3 to thecol' i in the manner described it serves to engage the vupper edges, o-fthe papers as they approach it and to not ,only limit their forward,movement butto press thein down` wardly against the bottom of thehopper in' case that they should by any possibility ride upwardly beforereaching the stop lil. The

purpose of the various adjustable collars, the stem '14e and rod Q2 isto provide for .the vertical and lateral adjustment'of the 4stop 13,itbeing evident'that the perpendicular Vadjustment may be elfected bysimply slidsol ing the stem la upwardly in the collars 1:5, 16 while thelatter adjustment may be produced by sliding the rod 22 in its clampingcollar'Ql.

The forward end of the supply of papers attheir lower edges is held bachor retarded by a shoulder 28 produced across the bottom 3 of the hopperin any suitable way, as better shown in Fig. l0, and arranged a slightdistance beyond this shoulder is av gate voi shutter 29 similar to 'thatdescribed` in my aforesaid application, but which in my presentinvention is comparatively short instead of' extending substantiallyacross the bottom of the hopper, and serves to engage the lower edge ofthe foremost paper and hold the same in place, the greater: part of thestrain produced by the forward movementof the entire supply of papersheilig borne by the shoulder 2S, which relieves the shutter or gate 29of severe pressure and also revents the ends of the papers at the sidesof the shutter orgate from being pushed forwardly beyond the gate aswould be the case, if the pressure of the main supply were not retardedby some such device as the shoulder lbefore the pressure reached thepapers immediately in the rear of shutter 29. rThis shutter or gate 29is mounted upon a rocker shaft 30 which is provided with a crank arm 31connected to an operating rod 32, see Fig. 9. One end of this rod isformed with a yoke 33 surrounding a shaft 3a on which is secured a cam35 adapted to act upon pin SG on said yoke at each revolution of theshaft and cause the shutter or gate 29 to open or move outwardly, allowing the paper to pass` the opixiosite moveinent of the shutter beingproduced by any suitable spring il? oi'othcr means. as described in myaforo-raid patent. Just as the shutter or gate QS) thus opens, the loweredge "of the Vigiaper ,is pickedup `or lifted fc'lear of "the shutterlor gate by a number of'suckers r 38 mounted upon the under side; of a4sucker bar or tube 39 connected by pipe 404wi-th any 4suitable pump or.other suction .device for exhausting the air, and as the'sucker thuslifts the paper, the gate 29 is again returned as shown in Fig. 6 tocatch the next paper and hold it in place.` The suckers then releasethe` foremost paper, -which'is shaft is provided -with avcranky 46connected pitinan 47 with a crankl i8 on shaft 49. As the paper is thusforced downwardly by the needle blocks itis caught vbetween feed rollers50, 5l and tapes 52, 53 and conducted i away to the addressing mechanismorother place not necessary to be described,` the character of thetreatment which it receives after leaving the mechanism whichconstitutes the subject of the present invention, being entirelyvimmaterial so far j as the claims of this application are concerned.lnasmiich,'liowever, as the papers are ordi.

. narily addressed in addressing machines forv which this feedingmechanism isespecially adapted, from slugs or linotypes andthe machineis necessarily so timed that ,one of such slugs or other devices,carrying the ad.

dress to be printed, comes'into positionto be printed at each operationof the machine. that is to say each time the suckers lift one of thepapers, or makes' its stroke.-

whether it lifts the paper or not, it naturally follows that suchslugwould pass by.

or pass out of printing position without leaving its imprint on some'one of the papers should anything happen to prevent thepaper fromreaching the printing position in due order of time witlrreljation tothev operation 'of the balance of the mechanism. 'n order therefore thatthe machine may be 'stopped automatically should any thing occur toprevent one 'of the papers from being introduced between the feed rolls"50, 51 each timel the sucker bar 39 makes a complet-e stroke, the`automatic stop or throw out mechanism, which will now be described, isemployed. This consists primarily of a linger 54 which isv adapted torest upon the paper while the same is passing under it between the tapesy52, 53 and is thereby supported, and operatively related to this fingeris a trip dog', which i-s secured to a lever 56 that serves to throwvthe machine in and out of operation, one

end of the lever being attached in any suitable way to one member 57 ofaiiysuitable .clutch whereby the machine is (li-nien, 5.8

representing a part of the driving belt. Ar-

ranged iinder the finger 5l is a plate :59`

yforced downwardly -by lneedle blocks ll mounted `upon armsv 4t2 whichslide in col-

